Its so blatant that its insulting to nba fans.
And the sixers of course jumping to where they need to be to not give OKC their pick. Even with the impending dynasty OKC has they've actually had bad lottery luck for hte most part.
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Its so blatant that its insulting to nba fans.
And the sixers of course jumping to where they need to be to not give OKC their pick. Even with the impending dynasty OKC has they've actually had bad lottery luck for hte most part.
chop2chip
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I struggle wanting to watch the NBA. The product is really bad right now. The irony that Roger Goodell is leagues better than Silver is not lost on me considering the consensus opinion a decade ago was Goodell was a disaster and Silver was mana from the Gods
Disagree in general on the product. THink we are actually moving back to a double big league which will expand diversity amongst playing styles.
The talent pool has never been this deep.
zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
Kind of like Hockey the NBA is carried by its stars. 10 years ago you had Durant, Lebron, Steph, etc. all duking it out. Then they started the load management and so on so on so forth. Now the best player in the league is a dude who doesn't even want to play basketball, he only does it because it makes him impossibly rich. Basketball thrived on exciting stars, MJ, Bryant, Shaq, AI, T-Mac, etc. it shined on big personalities with big plays and big results. Now it's just not as fun or exciting.
Watch Jokic give all out effort on the court for 40 minutes and tell me he doesn't even want to play basketball.
zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
When Jokic retires, he will have nothing to do with basketball, I'm confident in that. He doesn't care about basketball, he sees it as an ends to do what he wants, raise horses.
There have been many players that love to play the game but they have no interest otherwise.
I would suspect Jokic will be one of those guys for sure.
But for right now - Jokic is very into playing basketball.
zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
If Jokic wasn't getting paid 50 million dollars a year he wouldn't be playing basketball. I think Kobe would have played it no matter what. Tha'ts the difference.
chop2chip
Well-known member
100%
Jokic is incredible and an overachiever. You don’t do what he does without having passion.
chop2chip
Well-known member
What an awful take
zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
Nah, just spitting facts. Plenty of people show up and do their jobs. But that's not what people want to see in entertainers. Which is what athletes are.
chop2chip
Well-known member
Imagine watching the game tonight and thinking Jokic hates basketball.
Why would he get primary burn on this team as a playmaker?
Fitting to ignore defensive contributions which is a whole other world.
TWolves smothering them - SGA forgot he can pass the ball.